DVD Review: Mushi-Shi: The Complete Series, Veridian Collection
Mushi-Shi: The Complete Series, Viridian Collection
Ginko is a traveling Mushi master, who tries his best to help people who have been afflicted by these creatures, invisible to most humans. Going from village to village, he not only makes new friends, but encounters some rare Mushi.
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DVD Review: Legend of the Seeker Season 1
The Legend of the Seekerseries is based on the Sword of Truth books by Terry Goodkind, which so far consists of 12 novels starting with Wizards First Rule in 1994, and going to the most recent publication of The Law of Nines in 2009.
DVD Review: Wrong Turn 3: Left For Dead
“What you don’t see will kill you” could not be more true when you’re in the cannibalistic mutants butcher shop. At night. So goes Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead, the third in the Wrong Turn franchise.
DVD Review: Ruby-Spears Superman
Man… cartoons used to really suck. Joe Ruby and Ken Spears were a pair of animators for Hanna-Barbera (they worked together on developing Scooby-Doo) who decided to spin off and found their own studio in the 70s. Their business plan (a sound one, and oft repeated) was to identify anything that kids were interested in and rush an animated take on it to TV quickly and for as little money as possible. This approach kept the company in steady business and gifted the world with such Saturday morning classics as Turbo Teen (hello, Knight Rider) and Rubik the Amazing Cube as well as the slightly more regarded Conan/Star Wars pastiche Thundarr the Barbarian among many, many others. The shows generally only lasted a season or two, which was fine since by then the catalyzing fad had died out anyway and it was time to find a new way to capture the attention of the elementary-school set.
Blu-ray Review: Battlestar Galactica: The Plan
The Cylons were created by Man.
They rebelled.
There are many copies.
And they have…A PLAN.
These words scrolled across our television screens throughout the run of the series Battlestar Galactica. Now, following the amazing ending of the series, the team behind the show has released a new Direct to DVD (and Blu-ray) movie entitled The Plan. This film, directed by series star Edward James Olmos, was intended to show the Cylon's point of view during the destruction of the colonies and provide new insight into the series. Unfortunately for us fans, The Plan feels more like a glorified clip show with very little revelation than the show that we have seen thrive and encapsulate our attention for years.
Manga Review: Kurohime Vol.14
A beautiful, but deadly, Kurohime had been robbed of her powerful abilities as a witch-gunslinger (a term used to describe sorceresses who can summon powerful witch-beasts by firing bullets through witch-guns) and found a young man named Zero who is the only one able to break the curse put upon her by the Gods. Sadly, she must go back in time to save Zero from a horrible fate.
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Anime Blu-ray Review: Afro Samurai
Afro Samurai: Season 1 Director's Cut is a traditional tale of a lone ronin wandering the countryside of a weird techno-feudal Japan, searching for the man who killed his father. Oh, and he's black.
Hip hop culture has long embraced the kung-fu and gangster genres for their violence and hypermasculinity (e.g. veneration of Scarface, the Wu Tang Clan), who have in turn incorporated African-American motifs into their work (The Matrix films, lamentable blackface music acts in Japan) for a perceived infusion of soul/cool.
Anime Blu-ray Review: Vexille
In 2067 the lines between Robot and Android become blurred and the World turns against any Android technology. That is, everyone but Japan. Because Japan is run by a large Company named Daiwa, it decides to remove itself from the rest of the world and continue with the research. A visual and electronic barrier is raised and Japan becomes isolated from the rest of the world. 10 years have gone by, something bad is happening, and Japan is at the center of it. Now it is up to the American military group named SWORD to infiltrate and open a window to Japan.
Manga Review: Vampire Knight Vol. 8
Vampire Knight Volume 8
It's a new century, and the vampire race is starting to try to get along with the human race. A private boarding school, Cross Academy, is the middle ground for these two conflicting races. Yuki's memory has been locked deep within her mind, but it is constantly knocking. Yuki has been under the care of the headmaster of Cross Academy, so she knows the secret of the "Night Class". She has even fallen in love with the top of the Night Class students.
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